echoic

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"New World," and "Dancing with Girls from China" are counterpointed with their varied and particular echoic effects, I figure.

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  1. adjective Of or resembling an echo.
  2. adjective Imitative of natural sounds; onomatopoeic: an echoic word.

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  • Giggle is also echoic, as is guffaw cough: Pretty obvious once you think about it. —  The Word Detective
  • Quack is what linguists call an echoic or imitative word—it arose simply because folks thought it was a good approximation of the actual sound it describes. —  The Word Detective
  • "New World," and "Dancing with Girls from China" are counterpointed with their varied and particular echoic effects, I figure. —  Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot
  • For a very long time, echoic. org has been "the epitome of procrastination". —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • Guardian sound of the South Seas it is, the hushed, echoic roar of a —  Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
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  1. = Spanish ecóico = Portuguese echoico, from Late Latin echoicus, echoing, riming (of verses), from Latin echo, echo: see echo.
 

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